Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-03-25

to believe it will be so, and that the
gymnasium-the right thing in its place
win be kept within college control, and
not permitted to bring into University
halls the order of the prize ring.
THE QUESTION OF RULE IN CHICAGO.
When Mayor Carter Harrison so yehe
n1ently declared that he would not accept
denomination by his party, the Democracy.
for the Mayorality of Chicago, because he
feared trouble in the near future from the
Anarchists, he was not sincere. He toyed
with the nomination in a way to insure its
falling upon his shoulders, as it did, and
which he accepted, after some well arranged
urging had been gone through with. Mr..
Harrison is one of the shrewdest, and at
the same time most cowardly Of politicians
His methods have kept in training with
the vicious voting element. He has courted
and accepted the services of the lower ele-
ments in that great hotbed of Anarchism,
crime and misrule, Chicago. Harrison
says that if the Anarchists are granted
new trials, no jury can be secured in Chi
cago; the rascals will claim that they
have been INDICATED, and their followers
will thereupon become holder and more
demonstrative than ever. On the other
hand, if they are hanged, he says convul-
sions of some sort not specified will follow
If his assumptions are sound, and he is
the good executive his following claims,
he should deem it distinguished honor
to stand in the breach for the people, after
having so long stood up to the public crib
If new troubles visit Chicago of the kind
forecast by Carter Harrison, he is really |
the last man to be at the head of the city
government of the great Western metrop-
oils. He could not rally to his support
the better classes; they demand leader
of different timber. The vicious elements
which have constituted his advance and
his reserves, will not do much fighting or
backing disorder is their opportunity, and
they prefer it.
If Chicago is in the very unhappy
predicament Mr.. Harrison describes, it will
be nothing less than a calamity should he
be reelected. He is a machine man
every means heemploys is of the machine.
bossism is his faith, and its continuance his
hope. 1t is significant that about all the |
Democratic papers of the Garden City OPP
pose him, and this gives strength to the
hope that he will be defeated. The whole
country is interested in Harrisons candi-
dacy it involves boss rule in the third
city of the nation, and possible disaster to
order and law in a place where bomb
throwers dynamiters Communists, Social
lists, and Anarchists have received more
comfort and felt less restraint than in any
other locality in the Union. There is
need there more than anywhere else, FOR a
strong man, one determined to crush out
Anarchism and make the power of the
law felt need for a man of unhinching
courage, who does not fear the antagonists
of order and human rights.
The people of Chicago representative of
the better element are strong enough to
put firm man, such as in needed, in place;
but, like the better element nearly every
where, they are unorganized, organize with
great difficulty, and do not, except in great
social revolutions, long stand out against
united vice; a fact which no social phil
osopher has yet satisfactorily accounted for.
The question, then, of Mr. Harrison's can
didacy has more than local significance; it
relates to the spread or suppression of
dangerous element; the tolerance or the
crushing out of a spirit that puts all prop
erty possession in jeopardy. For while it
is true that the Anarchists do not exceed I
100000 in the United States, it is also
true that the secret and infamous methods
they employ make them far more formida-
bic than the figures show. A single man
sworn to do murder and hurl a Russian
bomb in the streets of an American city,
or plant a torpedo beneath an American
public building or private dwelling, is ex-
actly equal to the whole murder of unsus-
pecting people who come within the circle
of the influence of those terrible engines
OF death.